FRC Blogged - Dean's Slingshot

Blog Date:

Thursday, November 15, 2012 - 13:08

Check out the short film linked to below, Produced and Directed by Paul Lazarus, member of the FRC Game Design Committee. This wonderful film features Dean and his Slingshot water purification device and has been entered in the Focus Forward Film Competition. If this film doesn’t inspire you to become a scientist or engineer so you can make the world a better place, I don’t know what will.

The film is currently a semifinalist in the competition, and FIRST folks can push it over the top to be named an ‘Audience Favorite’ by voting for it online. Watch the film, then click the ‘Vote Now’ button that appears at the end. Wouldn’t it be great if this film about Dean and his work won? You can help make that happen! Every viewer is allowed to vote ten times every day. If you support this effort – and I believe you do - please max out your daily vote and vote often!

When will the world understand that it most times is NOT some BIG corporation or GOVERNMENT that has most of the time solved major problems in the world but the FREEDOM of Individual great minds that do so!

Clean water is not a 21st Century problem - it's an ancient problem. Kamen's solution is definitely 21st century, though, and there's the rub. How easy is this device to fix, or maintain? The proof of its effectiveness will be in its long-term ability to provide clean water where there may be no or only intermittent electricity or access to replacement parts or tools to fix the machine. As a water resources engineer, I must admit that I am skeptical. It certainly is a good problem to be working on, though, so more power to the inventors!

our team have been a follower of the sling shot project since the beginning. question; can the sling shot be operated by pedal power.....most places with no water donot have electrty. can we use people power